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Predatory journals, peer review, and education research
Author(s) -
Beall Jeffrey
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new horizons in adult education and human resource development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1939-4225
DOI - 10.1002/nha3.20173
Subject(s) - publishing , public relations , revenue , best practice , quality (philosophy) , peer review , psychology , medical education , political science , business , law , medicine , philosophy , accounting , epistemology
This commentary examines the problem of predatory journals, low‐quality open‐access journals that seek to earn revenue from scholarly authors without following scholarly publishing best practices. Seeking to accept as many papers as possible, they typically do not perform a standard peer review, leading to the publication of improperly vetted research. Some predatory journals repeatedly use templates as their peer review reports. Related scams also victimize education researchers.